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Introduction
Medical recipes. Fragment of a papyrus sheet (2.8 x 5.7 cm) broken on all sides, containing on the recto the central portion of a single column of 9 lines. The text preserves the remains of at least two remedies against dermatological diseases: a cerate (κηρωτή; ll. 3-6) and the very beginning of a recipe against erysipelas (ll. 8f). The script is a round uncial hand assignable to the 3rd or 4th cent. AD.
[ -ca.?- ] ̣σ ̣ ̣[ ̣]ων ̣[ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]να ((vacat)) κηρω̣[τὴ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- χ]ά̣ρ̣του̣(*) κεκαυ[μένου -ca.?- ]
5[ -ca.?- ]μ̣ετὰ μέρους [α ’][ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- λ]οιποῦ κη[ροῦ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ]βολιβῆ(*) πρ̣[ -ca.?- ](*)
[ -ca.?- ἐρ]υσιπέλατα [ -ca.?- ]
[ -ca.?- ] ἡ̣δὺ κ[αὶ] ψι[λὸν -ca.?- ]
Apparatus
Notes
- 3.
A blank space is left before the title of the following recipe (κηρω̣[τὴ]). Only a few letters of the first remedy survive.
- 4.
[χ]ά̣ρ̣του̣ κεκαυ[μένου]: see Gal. Comp.med.sec.loc. 9.5 (13, 298 K); also possible ἄ̣ρ̣του̣ κεκαυ[μένου], but the use of this ingredient is much more scantily attested in Greek medical literature (see Marganne 1984, 100 n. 4).
- 6.
βολιβῆ (l. μολιβῆ ‘leaden’) is probably referred to the vessel in which the cerate is prepared.